Hope for freedom of information?
Representatives from civil society and the opposition gathered yesterday to push for the adoption of an access to information law – a move that comes less than a month after Prime Minister Hun Sen urged the Ministry of Information to hasten its development. Two laws dealing ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hope-freedom-information
Officials say Cambodia's price rises manageable
Cambodia’s inflation rose by 5.49 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of the year, due to increases in food and fuel prices, according to the monthly data from the National Institute of Statistics compiled by the Post. However, economists and government officials said they were ...
Gaming Company Posts Record Quarter of $5.2M
Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc. (EGA), which owns a number of casinos in Cambodia, as well as provides Gaming machines to other local gambling venues, announced on Tuesday that quarterly revenues from April through June reached a record $5.2 million, up 14 percent compared to the ...
Cambodia's inflation lower than 3 pct this year: PM
Cambodia’s inflation rate is expected to be less than 3 percent in 2012 thanks to stable food prices, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Friday. “This year, the inflation will be less than 3 percent, it is low and good if compared to 5.5 percent rate last ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2012-11/30/c_132010698.htm
Gaming firm to expand Poipet operations
American Stock Exchange-listed Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc has announced it will build and operate a slot hall as an addition to an existing casino in Poipet city on Cambodia’s border with Thailand, according to a company statement. ...
Nagaworld reaches tax deal
NagaWorld, a subsidiary of a Hong Kong-listed NagaCorp, reached a deal with the Ministry of Economy and Finance to pay a new tax rate on their non-gaming operations, said a ministry official. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29693/nagaworld-reaches-tax-deal/
Cambodia’s Vietnam trade increasing
Prices for Vietnamese goods are increasing driving up demand for lower cost Cambodian goods. Exports to Cambodia’s neighbor have increased by more than 84 percent for the beginning of 2011, totaling some $247 million according to the Vietnam Trade Office. Inflation is rising in Vietnam ...
Waiting to tap rubber’s rebound
The large-scale rubber plantations that arrived in force in Cambodia a decade ago as global rubber prices moved to historic peaks are facing sober prospects as trees they planted before the commodity’s prices headed south begin to reach maturity. ...
Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/waiting-tap-rubbers-rebound
PM Hun Sen calls for calm as gasoline prices soar to record high
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday appealed to people to calm down as gasoline prices hit another high peak, citing that global crude oil has been on surge as the Russian-Ukraine crisis threatened to disrupt global supply. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501034692/pm-hun-sen-calls-for-calm-as-gasoline-prices-soar-to-record-high/
FAO says world food prices to reach record high in March, Cambodia expects 3.5 percent hike in Q1
Cost of food in Cambodia increased 2.78 percent in December of 2021 over the same month in the previous year, according to the National Institute of Statistics of Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501055959/fao-says-world-food-prices-to-reach-record-high-in-march-cambodia-expects-3-5-percent-hike-in-q1/
Minister of Agriculture inspects and discusses rice situation in Battambang province
Dith Tina, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, and other leaders met with Sok Loo, Governor of Battambang Province, and Oknha Phu Puy, Director General of Green Rice Mills in Battambang Province, to study the real situation of rice prices. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501358391/minister-of-agriculture-inspects-and-discusses-rice-situation-in-battambang-province/
Energy tariffs cut for industrial, agri sectors
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has announced a reduction in electricity tariffs for the industrial and agricultural sectors, effective from October to December 2023. This move is aimed at increasing production, fostering job creation and supporting income growth for Cambodians. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/energy-tariffs-cut-industrial-agri-sectors
Gasoline price remains stable at 4,600 riel per litre
The Ministry of Commerce on Sep 11, announced that the price of gasoline would remain the same for the next 10 days. The price of gasoline is 4,600 riel per litre, while the price of diesel is 4,750 riel per litre from September 11 to ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501358408/gasoline-price-remains-stable-at-4600-riel-per-litre/
Local fuel prices fall 10% amid global downticks
International fuel rates have started to fall back as India and Iran look to step up Russian crude imports, in a downward trend likely to be fuelled by cooperation between the trio of countries on reducing the pressure of the oil price crisis, economists have ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-fuel-prices-fall-10-amid-global-downticks
Poipet Casino Grand Opening set for Next Month
U.S. listed gambling firm Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc. (EGA) will next month hold a grand opening for its second casino on the Thai-Cambodia border, the company said. In a statement issued on Monday from Hong Kong, it said that Dreamworld Club in Poipet, which has been ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/poipet-casino-grand-opening-set-for-next-month-19965/
Food, fuel prices jump again
Heightened global food and fuel prices continued to inflate Cambodia’s market in September, and experts said flood damages would elevate costs further toward the end of the year. Year-on-year inflation hit 6.7 per cent in last month, up 1 per cent from August, according to data ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011102552319/Business/food-fuel-prices-jump-again.html
Gaming Asia opens new club
Entertainment Gaming Asia will open up it’s second Dreamworld Club in Cambodia in the Thai-Cambodia border town of Poipet, in Banteay Meanchey province, according to a media release from the US-listed company on Monday. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042565219/Business/gaming-asia-opens-new-club.html
CPI: cost of living falls slightly
The Kingdom’s consumer price index declined by 0.1 per cent in October for the first time in 2012 due to a decline in food and gasoline prices and a stable US dollar exchange rate, according to official data released by the National Institute of Statistics ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012112359895/Business/cpi-cost-of-living-falls-slightly.html
Demonstrators Take On Local Power Suppliers
Hundreds of Kompong Cham villagers protested yesterday and Sunday against high electricity prices in another example of energy-price demonstrations that are becoming increasingly frequent across the country. In Kompong Cham province’s Batheay district, more than 500 villagers yesterday continued a protest over electricity prices that began ...
Koh Rong Sanloem casino ‘is flouting’ closure order
A Preah Sihanouk provincial official said on Thursday that the owner of Jinding Hotel and Casino on Koh Rong Sanloem is flouting the authorities’ order to close the business by March 22. Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hall spokesman Kheang Phearum told The Post that the provincial ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-rong-sanloem-casino-flouting-closure-order